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Tourette Syndrome
Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by tics -- involuntary,
rapid, sudden movements or vocalizations that occur repeatedly in the same way.
Diagnostic criteria include:
Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by tics -- involuntary,
rapid, sudden movements or vocalizations that occur repeatedly in the same way.
Diagnostic criteria include:
- Both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics present at some time, although not
necessarily simultaneously;
- The occurrence of tics many times a day (usually in bouts) nearly every day or
intermittently throughout the span of more than one year;
- Periodic changes in the number, frequency, type and location of the tics, and in
the waxing and waning of their severity. Symptoms can sometimes disappear for
weeks or months at a time;
- Onset before the age of 18.
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